Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session C15: Physics Education at All Stages
3:00 PM–5:36 PM,
Monday, March 15, 2021
Sponsoring
Unit:
FED
Chair: Catherine Crouch, Swarthmore College
Abstract: C15.00011 : Changes in the number of doctoral degree holders in computational materials science in Japan -recent diversity of research fields-*
5:00 PM–5:12 PM
Live
Presenter:
Yayoi Terada
(Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
Authors:
Yayoi Terada
(Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
Tetsuo Mohri
(Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
We analyzed the subjects of more than 150 thousand doctoral dissertations in the fields of traditional engineering and science (ES) found in a Japanese doctoral dissertation database. We estimated the change in the number of doctors in CMS in Japan using text data mining techniques. As a result of the analysis, we found that the ratio of doctors in CMS to those in traditional ES has continued to increase, closing to 0.1 in 2018.
Due to a review of Japanese higher education system after 1991, names of stipulated doctoral degree have been changed by law. Appropriate major has been added to doctoral degree, not only traditional majors like engineering and science, but also new majors such as mathematical science, information science, and so on. Though the traditional majors are dominant even now, we also found that the ratio of CMS doctoral degree holders in new majors is bigger than those in traditional fields.
*This work was supported by Professional development Consortium for Computational Materials Scientists (PCoMS) and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K18619.
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